191 N. Wacker gets new tenant

Chicago-based law firm Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament & Rubenstein P.C. is close to signing a lease for roughly 60,000 square feet of office space at 191 N. Wacker Drive, according to sources familiar with the negotiations.

A spokesman for the firm declined to comment on the negotiations, but says the company does not intend to renew its lease for space at 200 N. LaSalle St. when it expires in early 2003.

Among tenants already committed to the 740,000-square-foot tower is law firm Gardner Carton & Douglas, which will be the building's anchor tenant occupying roughly 235,000 square feet of space. The Chicago office of Washington D.C.-based consulting firm Watson Wyatt Worldwide signed a lease for 65,000 square feet in December (Crain's, Dec. 3, 2001).